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"Look at what they travel on" Quite clearly railtrack didn't in a few places!

N M Rothschild... oh dear :(

i am mad i was born in texas and most of the kids call me retarde or dumd for likeing trains but not football the uk is train fan heven it been two times im been stop by a train this year

papero40 2 months ago

...But don't look at that Gauge corner cracking

RadiotoCharlie3Vids 4 months ago

Surely the creation of Railtrack (for which read let accountants run the railway) must have been one of the most disastrous policies since, er, well the Poll Tax (in fact during the parliamentary debates somebody said rail privatisation would be Poll Tax on wheels).

But what's even more amazing is that people were daft enough to buy Railtrack shares! Unless they were counting on getting rid of the trains as soon as possible and building office blocks on those valuable city centre station sites.

JimTLonW6 5 months ago

@JimTLonW6 The quote is from Robert Adley MP, Chairman of the House of Commons Transport Committee.

JimTLonW6 5 months ago

The music wasn't the Cranberries it was written by Rob Doran (Hard Corps) and Rod Syers (Perfect Strangers) with Maggie Boyle singing. For more information contact Montgomery Music formerly Logorhythm Music.

soscc33 8 months ago

More like Now Your Looking at Faliure.

glitch4465 8 months ago

Great where can I get the music

starz48ful 8 months ago

Great where can I the music

starz48ful 8 months ago

Is this the same Railtrack that let a InterCity 225 set derail at 115MPH killing 4 people in 2000?

86501freightliner 9 months ago

"dont look at the trains"....erm you know i'd rather look at the trains than look at track thats broken or not fixed onto sleepers at all.

"look at what they travel on" broken rails, "around 10,000miles of " broken rail.

"look at what they travel over" broken bridges, "40,000 BROKEN bridges and viaducts......and railway is in their blood...more like the blood is on the railway.

what a laugh i like ripping piss with this ad to freinds. decent ad though if it wernt for the incidents that is.

IC225 9 months ago

Snow problems is the Trafikverket (Transport Administration) errors that maintains the tracks. But all the blame on SJ that trains do not run on time. So I think unfortunately that SJ will go the way of BITISH RAIL did. And then the Swedish railways become total crap.

X1rules1 1 year ago

Hello. You seem outraged that British Rail is gone. I'm from Sweden and there is still SJ (Statens Järnvägar) or (state railways) remains. But now the government in Sweden did the same as you. We have deregulated the state railway. But so far, SJ has been doing well. But now, SJ problems with snow trains are delayed because of snow.

X1rules1 1 year ago

@X1rules1 The problems start when you privatise track maintenance and management, because a company that has shareholders to satisfy has other priorities than passenger safety. Although I have to add that safety hasn't been up to good standards during the days of BR either, resulting in many deadly accidents,Clapham Junction crash for instance. Now, Sweden's Railways, as far as I know, are far from as old and extensive as Britain's railnetwork, for that reason I think it's tricky to compare them

brchtr002 11 months ago

I have another thing to say that British Rail wasn't that bad in the 1990's before it breaks apart. As an American, British Rail is one of my favorite railways in the world and I should say that British Rail should come back so there's no more competition in the nation's railway lines (except for High Speed 1). Does Railtrack still exist in Britain today?

Trainmaster189 1 year ago

@Trainmaster189

No, it wasn't. And and many people agree it should come back - look up bring back british rail on fb

Railtrack was re-nationalized (in all but name) in 2001 when Railtrack collapsed owing to its debt...it is now called Network Rail and is owned by the Government.

lewis986 1 year ago

I wonder what British Rail would be like if it not privatized. There would be Intercity Swallow Pendolinos, Javelins, and SuperExpress trains.

Trainmaster189 1 year ago

Love this ad, reminds me of train spotting when I was younger... :)

Intercity47GBRail 1 year ago

@hstscotsman The railways now get more government money than they did before.

If anything, the government should take its hands off and let them fend for themselves like everyone else.

theredraven 1 year ago

@hstscotsman Can't blame them can you though?

Privatisation of BT, BG, Steel etc all worked really well (considering they'd become useless in the 1970s). John Major probably thought the formula would work for railways too.

theredraven 1 year ago